Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
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We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.Mark Twain
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.
Mark Twain
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.
Mark Twain
It is a pity that we cannot escape from life when we are young.
Mark Twain
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